Nearly Half of Parents in a Pool Noticed Negative behavioral changes in Kids After they Started Playing 18+ Games

Most Parents Don’t Care About Video Game Age Rating

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Parents always claim that they don’t let their kids play rated M video games and if they do they don’t let them play the game without checking to see if their child can handle it. According to a recent poll done by childcare.co.uk, almost 9 out of 10 parents let their kids play rated M games. Since games such as Mortal Kombat came out, parents and politicians have been saying that violent video games are bad for children and have very bad effects on them but on the other hand gamers have been saying how come video games are getting blamed for violence, not movies. 

According to the poll, 86% of parents don’t follow age ratings in video games and 43% noticed bad behavioral changes in their kids since they let their kids play M rated games. Of course, this is too broad as to some bad behavioral changes are if their kid takes a knife and starts chasing around their parents and to others bad behavioral changes in their kids are if the kid simply pushes one of their siblings. This definitely makes it harder for gamers to be able to argue that games aimed at adults don’t have bad effects on children in the long term. This survey was done on kids from 5 to 16. 53% of them were boys and 47% were girls. 

It seems like parents don’t care if their kids play games at for adults as much as they care if their kid can watch adult movies. Only, 18% of parents let their 10 to 14-year-old kids watch movies for people 18 and older. It seems like parents think that video games affect kids less than movies. Most parents don’t know much about video games but parents sure know a lot about movies as they watched them when they were kids. Most parents don’t know anything about video games so when they buy their son or daughter at rated M game they think “it’s just a game it doesn’t matter”.

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Technology, Video Games, Violent Video games, Rated M Games, Negative behavioral changes in Kids

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